FrontPage 2000/2002 HowTo Directory

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Navigation Structure

• Set a navigation structure for a web
• Add a navigation bar to a page
• Change which pages are displayed on a navigation bar
• Exclude a page from navigation bars
• Add an external hyperlink to a navigation bar
• Change the page labels on a navigation bar
• Change the orientation of a navigation bar
• Display text hyperlinks or buttons on a navigation bar
• Change the text format of a navigation bar
• Modify the title of a file
• Print the navigation structure of a web
• Delete a navigation bar from a page
• Create a site map using categories
• Add a list of files from a category to a page
• Create a table of contents for a web
• Set properties for a table of contents
• Regenerate a table of contents when any page is edited
• Save changes in Navigation view

Hyperlinks

• Create a hyperlink to a page or file in a web
• Create a hyperlink to a page or file on the World Wide Web
• Create a hyperlink to a page or file on a file system
• Create a hyperlink to a new page
• Create a hyperlink to an Office document
• Create a bookmark
• Create a hyperlink to a bookmark
• Create a hyperlink to send an e-mail message
• Add an external hyperlink to a navigation bar
• Follow a hyperlink
• Go to a bookmark on a page
• Edit a hyperlink
• Set hyperlink colors
• Add font effects to a hyperlink
• Delete a hyperlink
• Delete a bookmark
• Add a hotspot to a graphic
• Add a text hotspot to a graphic
• Highlight the hotspots on a graphic
• Edit, move, resize, or delete a hotspot on a graphic

Working with Webs

• Create a web
• Import a web
• Convert a disk-based web to a server-based web
• Convert a folder to a web
• Create a folder
• Rename a web
• Copy a web
• Open a web
• Convert a web to a folder
• Save a page to the current web
• Save a page to a different web
• Save a page to a file system
• Import a file or folder
• Export a file or folder
• Move a file or folder
• Rename a file or folder
• Import graphics to a web
• Delete pages from the current web
• Create a new page in the Folder List
• Delete a web
• Find text in a web
• Replace text in a web

Designing Web Pages

• About pages

Give Pages a Consistent Look

• Create a page template
• Set a background color for a page
• Set a background picture for a page
• Apply the background and colors of one page to another

Set page margins

• Set page margins

Themes

• Apply a theme to the current page
• Apply a theme to selected pages
• Apply a theme to a web
• Change the colors used in a theme
• Change the graphics used in a theme
• Change the styles used in a theme
• Create a new theme
• Remove a theme from selected pages
• Remove a theme from a web
• Install additional themes

Shared Borders

• Set shared borders for all pages in a web
• Set shared borders for a page
• Add, change, or remove elements in a shared border
• Modify the title of a file

Frames

• Create a frames page
• Create a hyperlink to display a page in another frame
• Delete a frame
• Edit HTML of a frames page
• Edit HTML of a page displayed in a frame
• Edit the page displayed in a frame in another window
• Make your home page a frames page
• Control how a browser displays frames
• Modify a frames page template
• Modify a frames page "no frames" message
• Modify target frames on a frames page
• Open a frames page
• Rename a frame
• Resize a frame
• Save a frames page
• Save a frames page template
• Save a page displayed in a frame
• Set frame margins
• Set spacing between frames
• Set the initial page displayed in a frame
• Show or hide frame borders
• Split a frame
• Switch between frames in a frames page
• View or edit a frames page inside a frame

Cascading Style Sheets

• Modify a style for a page
• Create a style for a page
• Delete a style from a page
• Create or modify a class or ID selector
• Apply a style to a page element
• Apply an inline style to a page element
• Apply a class or ID selector
• Create an external style sheet
• Create or edit an embedded style sheet
• Edit an external style sheet
• Link a page to an external style sheet
• Edit the external style sheet of a theme
• Find and replace text in a style sheet
• Enable or disable specific versions of CSS

Add Page Elements

Page Elements

• Add a page banner to a page
• Change a page banner
• Add a time stamp to a page
• Add a horizontal line to a page
• Create custom bullets
• Create a bulleted list
• Create a numbered list
• Create a definition list
• Create an outline
• Create a collapsible list
• Create a multilevel list
• Change the properties of a list
• Remove numbers or bullets from a list

Tables

• Create a simple table
• Create a table and set its properties
• Create a table by drawing it
• Set the table layout
• Convert text to a table
• Convert a table to text
• Delete table elements
• Distribute rows and columns evenly
• Format headings in a table
• Hide a table border
• Add a cell, row, or column
• Insert a table caption
• Insert a table within a table
• Merge cells
• Modify a table border
• Resize a cell, row, or column
• Resize a table
• Select table elements
• Set cell spanning
• Set the background color in a table
• Display a background picture in a table
• Set the cell layout
• Set the color of table borders
• Split cells

Animations and Special Effects

• Add a sound effect to a hover button
• Create a marquee
• Create a hover button
• Create a banner ad
• Format a marquee
• Format the font in a marquee
• Animate a page element
• Add font effects to a hyperlink
• Create a transition effect for a page or web
• Set properties for a hover button
• Set a picture for a hover button
• Set a picture for a hover effect on a hover button
• Set properties for a banner ad
• Highlight animated elements on the Normal tab in Page view
• Modify the animation of a page element
• Remove animation from a page element
• Set properties for a video
• Add a Java applet
• Add a video
• Set a background sound for a page

Automated Content

• Define a variable
• Display a page on another page
• Schedule a page or picture to appear on another page
• Display a variable on a page
• Regenerate a table of contents when any page is edited
• Show a warning when a text index is out of date

Applets, Plug-ins, and Controls

• Add a Java applet
• Set properties for a Java applet
• Add a plug-in
• Set properties for a plug-in
• Add an ActiveX control
• Set properties for an ActiveX control
• Add or remove ActiveX controls from the list
• Create a message to display in browsers without Java support
• Create a message to display in browsers without plug-in support
• Hide a plug-in
• Add a design-time control
• Set properties for a design-time control
• Add or remove design-time controls from the list
• Select the design-time control scripting platform
• Select the design-time control server script language
• Select the design-time control client script language
• Show or hide design-time controls on the Normal tab in Page view

Add Graphics

Graphics

• Add a picture from a file
• Add a picture from a web
• Add a picture from a site on the World Wide Web
• Add a video
• Add clip art
• Import graphics to a web
• Change the brightness of a picture
• Change the color contrast of a picture
• Convert a picture to black and white
• Crop a picture
• Rotate a picture
• Flip a picture
• Wash out the color of a picture
• Make a color in a picture transparent
• Put text on a picture
• Resample a picture
• Add a beveled border to a picture
• Restore a picture
• Create a thumbnail of a picture
• Set the border properties for a graphic
• Open a picture to edit it
• Resize a graphic
• Set the alignment and spacing of a graphic
• Specify text to display in place of a graphic
• Specify a low-resolution version of a graphic
• Set properties for a video
• Set properties for creating thumbnails
• Convert a picture to GIF, JPEG, or PNG format
• Set properties for a GIF or JPEG picture
• Add a picture as a submit button to a form

Image Maps

• Set a default hyperlink for a graphic
• Add a hotspot to a graphic
• Add a text hotspot to a graphic
• Edit, move, resize, or delete a hotspot on a graphic
• Highlight the hotspots on a graphic

Format Page Elements

• Define a custom color for a page element
• Make text bold
• Insert a special character
• Add borders around text
• Set the font for text
• Increase or decrease space between characters
• Cut or delete text
• Add shading to text
• Set the text alignment
• Set line and paragraph indentation
• Raise or lower text
• Underline text
• Add a new line of text within a paragraph
• Apply a style to a paragraph
• Copy character and paragraph formatting
• Set line and paragraph spacing
• Remove text formatting

Color

• Set a background color for a page
• Set hyperlink colors
• Change the colors used in a theme
• Define a custom color for a page element
• Define a custom color for a theme element
• Define a custom color for a style

Positioning

• Place an element on a page using absolute positioning
• Group elements inside a position box
• Set the properties of a positioned page element
• Select a positioned element

Make Pages Interactive

Forms

• Create a form
• Create a form using a wizard
• Create a search form
• Format a search form
• Format search results
• Create a user registration form
• Create a confirmation page and assign it to a form

Designing Forms

• Add a check box to a form
• Add a radio button to a form
• Set data entry rules for a radio button
• Add a custom push button to a form
• Add a drop-down menu to a form
• Set data entry rules for a drop-down menu
• Add a one-line text box to a form
• Add a scrolling text box to a form
• Set data entry rules for a text box
• Add a submit button to a form
• Add a picture as a submit button to a form
• Add a reset button to a form
• Add a hidden field to a form
• Modify or remove a hidden field
• Add a password field to a form
• Delete a field from a form
• Make a selectable label for a field in a form
• Set a keyboard shortcut for a field in a form
• Set the tab order in a form
• Modify properties for a field in a form
• Disable automatic form functionality for fields

Handling Form Results

• View or display the results of a form
• Specify the information to collect from a form
• Save form results using a custom form handler
• Save form results to an existing database
• Send form results in an e-mail message
• Save form results to a file
• Save form results to a new Microsoft Access database

Discussion Groups

• Set properties for a discussion web
• Manage discussion group articles
• Create a discussion group
• Limit a search to a specific discussion web

Databases

• Add information from a database to your pages using the Database Results Wizard
• Modify an existing database connection
• Remove a database connection
• Verify a database connection
• Use an Access database in a web
• Use an Excel database in a web
• Create a database connection
• Import a database
• Create a hyperlink in a list of database results
• Modify the labels of fields displayed in database results
• Change the fields displayed in database results
• Save form results to an existing database
• Save form results to a new Microsoft Access database

Authoring HTML

• Show or hide color coding of HTML
• Edit HTML of a page
• Find and replace text on the HTML tab in Page view
• Find and replace text in HTML in a web
• Show or hide HTML tags on the Normal tab in Page view
• Insert HTML on the Normal tab in Page view
• Go to a line number on the HTML tab in Page view
• Modify HTML formatting
• Modify HTML formatting of specific tags
• Get HTML formatting from a page
• Modify color coding of HTML
• Open or edit an Active Server Page (.asp)
• Enable or disable Dynamic HTML (DHTML)
• Set properties on the HTML tab in Page view
• Preserve the original HTML formatting of a page
• Print HTML of a page
• Add a system META-variable to a page
• Add a user-defined META-variable to a page

Ensuring Web Compatibility

• Target a web for specific browsers
• Target a web for specific servers
• Enable or disable ActiveX controls
• Enable or disable VBScript
• Enable or disable JavaScript
• Enable or disable Java applets
• Enable or disable frames
• Control how a browser displays frames
• Enable or disable specific versions of CSS
• Enable or disable Dynamic HTML (DHTML)
• Enable or disable Active Server Pages (.asp)

Analyzing Webs

• View a site summary
• View hyperlinks to and from any page in your web
• List broken hyperlinks
• View the list of tasks
• Add a hit counter to a page
• Reset a hit counter to zero
• Calculate the size of a web
• Calculate the size of all pictures
• Count pictures
• List pages that will download slowly
• Define "slow pages" in Reports view
• Sort files by date
• Define "older" files in Reports view
• Define "recent" files in Reports view
• Check for errors on a page
• Check spelling in a web
• Check spelling on the current page
• List errors in components
• List files by assignment
• List files by category
• List files by checkout status
• List files by publishing status
• List files by review status
• List unlinked files
• Print a page
• Print HTML of a page
• Print the navigation structure of a web
• Check the publishing status of a web

Publishing Webs

• Check the publishing status of a web
• Mark the pages to publish
• Publish a web using HTTP
• Publish a web using FTP
• Add or change an FTP location
• Delete a file or folder that has been published
• Publish a web to a file system location
• Hide a page from Web browsers
• Flag a page for a search engine

Managing Webs

• Convert a disk-based web to a server-based web
• View information about your server
• Use your computer as a server
• Test your network connection
• Enable or disable the FrontPage Server Extensions
• Convert a web to a folder
• Convert a folder to a web
• Set file properties
• View summary information for a file
• Add a comment to a file summary
• Create a hidden folder
• Files and folders that FrontPage creates for your web
• Recalculate hyperlinks
• Verify hyperlinks
• Repair broken hyperlinks
• Delete temporary files

Security

• Add a user to a web and set permissions
• Add a group of users to a web and set permissions
• Change permissions for a user
• Change permissions for a group of users
• Remove a user or group of users from a web
• Change a password

Language Settings

• Set the default display font for a language or character set
• Set the page language
• Change the page-encoding language for saving or loading a page
• Set the server message language for a web
• Set the default page encoding for a web
• Set the default spelling language for a web

Getting Around in FrontPage

• Open a page
• Create a new page
• Create a new page in the Folder List
• Open a new window
• Stop loading a page
• Undo or redo an action
• Undo or redo an edit
• Get information about your program or computer
• Refresh a page or a view
• Open the last web automatically when you start FrontPage
• Find text on a page
• Replace text on a page
• Keyboard shortcuts

Working with Views in FrontPage

• Switch views in FrontPage
• Switch tabs in Page view
• Show or hide the Views bar
• Display small icons on the Views bar
• View hyperlinks to and from any page in your web
• Customize view options
• Customize Page view
• Customize Navigation view
• Save changes in Navigation view
• Customize Hyperlinks view
• Define "recent" files in Reports view
• Define "older" files in Reports view
• Define "slow pages" in Reports view
• Show or hide completed tasks in Tasks view
• Sort the list of tasks
• Show or hide gridlines in reports

Customizing Your Workspace

• Check spelling automatically as you type
• Add a web or a page to your Favorites list
• Show or hide files in hidden folders
• Show or hide the status bar
• Show or hide spelling errors
• Show or hide completed tasks in Tasks view
• View or customize toolbars
• Create a toolbar
• View or customize menus
• Animate menus
• Customize Hyperlinks view
• Customize Page view
• Customize Navigation view
• Show or hide gridlines in reports
• Show or hide design-time controls on the Normal tab in Page view
• Add or remove design-time controls from the list

Files and Their Associated Editors

• Associate an editor with a file type
• Change the editor associated with a file type
• Remove the association between an editor and a file type
• Open a file with a different editor
• Open pages in the Office application that created them

Previewing Files in a Web Browser

• Preview a page in a Web browser
• Save pages automatically before previewing in a browser
• Add a Web browser to the preview list
• Set the preview window size

Programming

• Use a macro
• Use the Visual Basic Editor
• Use the Microsoft Script Editor
• Set the behavior of an add-in

Using FrontPage in Workgroups

• Assign a task
• Mark a task as completed
• Create a task
• Start a task
• Prioritize a task
• Change the name or description of a task
• Sort the list of tasks
• Delete a task
• Add a comment to a page
• Add a comment to a file summary
• Assign a file
• Categorize a file
• Create a shared template
• Delete a shared template
• Modify a shared template
• Modify a frames page template
• Save a frames page template
• Modify the Assigned To list
• Modify the master categories list
• Send a copy of a page in an e-mail message
• Set the review status for a file
• Modify the list of review statuses
• Enable built-in source control
• Check out a file
• Check in a file
• Undo a file checkout

Using FrontPage with Office

• Add an Office Spreadsheet component
• Add an Office PivotTable component
• Add an Office Chart component
• Create a hyperlink to an Office document
• Open pages in the Office application that created them
• Use an Excel database in a web
• Insert a file on a page

What's New

Check spelling automatically as you type
Animate menus
Use the Visual Basic Editor
Use the Microsoft Script Editor

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